Catherine

I used to get the post-season letdown until I learned to have activities planned for right after, that have nothing to do with taxes. Garden. Bicycle. Family. This year my younger daughter is planning an open house party for this coming Sunday, so I spent today out at her house, helping her get ready. It really helps to have a right-away reminder that there is a life outside of tax season. However, if you really start to feel hopeless, go see your doctor! There may be something wrong; don't discount that possibility, if tackling a new task doesn't distract you from the sadness.

One of my clients has a dump truck. Would love to see one of THOSE in the supermarket parking lot!

Why limit yourself? Do both!

Remember when we posted pictures of our desks? She had a London travel blog (that I later bookmarked!) up on her monitor. (If I recall correctly.)

The sundae was great! Enjoy your time with your wife.

What did YOU do to celebrate the end of tax season? Sleep? Eat? Drink? All of the above? My husband and I are going out in about a half hour, to get me a hot fudge sundae. That's my celebration.

Congratulations! Enjoy the feeling, maybe do something extra fun tonight (I have designs on a hot fudge sundae, myself). We'll see you on the forum!

I came home an hour ago. Everyone is on extension. We're officially closed tomorrow.

The latest from Drake is that the IRS is allowing LIMITED e-files currently. So my guess is that the various software companies have been given quotas and data rates to stay within as they test the system, and that those will be increased slowly until lifted (assuming no further problems).

That was probably me, here in the home of Romneycare.

No answer, but I'll bump you up in the queue.

Why would you expect this to be deductible? If covered (or coverable, even if he does not participate) by a work plan, that's it. No deduction. The client has the option of making a traditional NON-deductible contribution, or a Roth contribution (if within income limitations).

I would send 1099's. You say the art is *created* by the consignors, so they are likely (or even just possibly) in an activity engaged in for profit (else they'd give paintings away). There are penalties for NOT sending 1099's, but no penalties for sending ones that are not needed.

The other suggestions are good - but if you decide you want to chat, you know where to find me, Lynn!

Yet again, asking for help makes the answer come out of hiding!

My first job EVER was to replace the pages. My dad would bring them home a few at a time from his office with the replacement page sets, and I'd go through and update. Next night he'd bring back another few books.... Maybe that's why I can find things in books super fast, but cannot for the life of me get the keywords right for an online search!

Test any system on yourself first. We supposedly had that (log in, send a text from online), but it never worked. It would say the message went out, but it never went anywhere.

And Judy (aka @jklcpa the Magnificent) once again has a cite and quote and reference. Judy, I have NO idea how you manage to do this in the midst of the busy tax season - but we all love you for it!

I have heard that these snafus can take a VERY long time to fix.

If you go the Form 3115 route, remember that the section 481a corrections do NOT automatically flow through - you have to put the numbers in as over-rides.

Nasty winter weather going on and/or expected. A foot of snow in South Dakota, blizzard warnings, huge temperature drops in OK, high plans travel difficult to impossible, snow sleet and freezing rain in the northeast. Stay safe out there! https://www.iceagenow.info/blizzard-warnings-for-six-states/

Good idea, @JohnH - but she also may need to go to the SSA (with an appt; they won't see walk-ins any more, at least not around here) with the reject notice etc and make sure they have not totally mucked up her account. There could be other problems lying in wait - including cutting off her checks, because after all she's deceased - not. It could also be that someone with a similar number did die, and the IRS managed to mess up entering that ssn.

I'd believe they have access to the HRB "Tax Cut" program database - but not Intuit's. Maybe the kid did his return on Tax Cut instead of Ttx?

Welcome, @Patti in Upstate NY and @Alex if I forgot to welcome you earlier. We all know *exactly* what you mean, Patti, when you talk about the fools who somehow get to your door. Hope to see posts from both of you going forward. Posts slack way off come 4/18 but a few of us die-hards are still here. We perk up again in fall, die down a bit for the holidays, then we're all back in fighting trim come January. Poke around in the off season; someone will poke back!

This one hit yesterday evening. Doctor; spouse is a doctor. Spouse has a W-2 job but t/p is self-employed. NEVER makes estimated payments and owes big time. We had his return finalized in a rush after getting the last tidbits from him because he was agitating for finishing. He came and picked up, brought signatures back next morning and left. We had not gotten around to e-filing him (phew) when we get an email saying "what was my SEP contribution?" SEP contribution/ --What SEP contribution?! First we had heard of it! Back-track dance commenced... and turned out to be a good thing. 'Cuz I did a stupid and entered the state 1099-MISC income a line too high, so it got double-counted, once on Sch C and once on Line 21 - and in the rush to finish for him, no one (meaning ME) caught it. We need new signatures; he was actually happy because his federal tax went down, and I (re-)learned NOT to let clients pressure me into rushing! I eventually found some time to wash the egg off my face.